Affordable vacation strategy
What are your tricks? I just looked at the internet for any new ideas I haven't yet considered and it didn't yield much new useful info. I'm just looking for any new ideas I haven't yet conside...
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We have always taken a different tack. We try to do with less during the year to have more for vacation. In real life I am pretty frugal (nice word for cheap)
But not so much on vacation. Trying to be to cheap on vacation, can just ruin it for everyone in my opinion.
I would say, sounds like your kids are still going with you. Won't be to long before they won't want to go. Enjoy them while you have them. If everyone wants ice cream, or you find a really cool tour I say do it. Not saying however one should blow money like a drunken sailor.
From experience, $500 or $600 more spent on vacation, may seem like a lot of money at the time. But it is not in the grand scheme of things.
We can always make more money, but these vacation times with the kids, they are gone forever.
In my opinion, money spent on vacation, to go see and do and bond as a family is money well spent. That is where I would put my effort, rather than seeing how inexpensive you can do it.
But not so much on vacation. Trying to be to cheap on vacation, can just ruin it for everyone in my opinion.
I would say, sounds like your kids are still going with you. Won't be to long before they won't want to go. Enjoy them while you have them. If everyone wants ice cream, or you find a really cool tour I say do it. Not saying however one should blow money like a drunken sailor.
From experience, $500 or $600 more spent on vacation, may seem like a lot of money at the time. But it is not in the grand scheme of things.
We can always make more money, but these vacation times with the kids, they are gone forever.
In my opinion, money spent on vacation, to go see and do and bond as a family is money well spent. That is where I would put my effort, rather than seeing how inexpensive you can do it.
